Word: pizarro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with new vigor. Old disciplines were breaking down. New countries were opening up?America, Africa. India. The imaginations of men burned with dreams of gold to be brought back by far-ranging ships. Had there been newspapers then, the following names would have been in the headlines? Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Copernicus, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Holbein, Cellini, Erasmus, Cranmer, Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Luther, Rabelais. Machiavelli, Loyola...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
...spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give two excellent characterizations in auxiliary roles...
...Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) was founded August 4, 1496 by Bartholomew, brother of Christopher Columbus, and is therefore, necessarily, the first permanent European settlement in the New World (incidentally it is and always has been a Capital-official residence of Spain's first Viceroy in the Americas). Francisco Pizarro was a young soldier of fortune among the early Spanish conquistadores, a contemporary of and under Columbus, who went out from Santo Domingo on his history making conquest of the Incas. WM. E. PULLIAM...
Fertilizer was added to the root so to speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage and treachery that reads like a fairly tale...